Illustrations & tables complement the text. Cultures of the Pacific is designed primarily for undergraduate & graduate courses in the anthropology of Pacific peoples & cultures.

This 1998 book examines a range of nineteenth-century European accounts from the Pacific, depicting Polynesian responses to imported metropolitan culture, in particular its technologies of writing and print.

Essential single-volume history of the Pacific region and the global interactions which define it.

Readers will find the book easy to understand, and instructors will find the layout of the materials easy to set into course syllabi. Each section of the book probes issues that are significant for the study of the peoples of Oceania.

This collection, a much expanded edition of boundary 2, offers a new perception of the Asia/Pacific region by presenting the Pacific not as a paradise or vast emptiness, but as a place where living, struggling peoples have constructed ...

... Cultures of the Pacific: Selected Readings. New York: The Free Press. ———. 1926. Crime and Custom in Savage Society. New York: Routledge. ———. 1932. Argonauts of the Western Pacific. New York: Routledge. Mellor, T., and J. Jabes. 2004 ...

In a provocative analysis that combines politics and culture as well as economics, Winchester gives readers a remarkable new look at the people of this region, from Japan to Australia, Korea to the west coasts of North and South America. 25 ...

... Selected Readings (New York: Free Press. 1970). Hezel. Francis and Mark Berg ... Readings on a Culture Area (Scranton: Chandler Publishing Co., 1971). Oliver, Douglas L., The Pacific Islands, 3rd edition ... Cultures of the Pacific: An.